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Events

Ottoman Land Code, 7 Ramadan 1274

Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis

Killing of Avraham Stern

General Islamic Conference on Palestine, Jerusalem

3 December 1953 - 9 December 1953

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Assassination of Mahmud Madani in Balata Refugee Camp

19 February 2001

Launch of the South African Peace Initiative (Spier Initiative)

11 January 2002 - 12 January 2002

Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements

21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003

Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza

29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4

17 November 2012

Palestinians' Hunger Strikes in Israeli Prisons

19 February 2013 - 22 April 2013

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

Israeli-Imposed Restrictions and Violence at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Towards a Unity Intifada

23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1894 - 19 March 1949

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Media

Cucumber Crops Being Harvested

Historical Texts

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

The Mitchell Report

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Highlights

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Balata Refugee Camp

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Shatila Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Places

Khirbat Karraza